diff --git a/.github/workflows/linux.yml b/.github/workflows/linux.yml
index 4fa5ef5719..d0e24efa99 100644
--- a/.github/workflows/linux.yml
+++ b/.github/workflows/linux.yml
@@ -128,7 +128,11 @@ jobs:
     - name: Install
       run: |
         sudo apt update
+        sudo apt -y autoremove python3
         sudo apt install clang-14 cmake gfortran libhdf5-dev python3.11 python3.11-dev wget
+        python="$(which python3.11)"
+        sudo ln -s "$python" "${python%.11}"
+        sudo ln -s "$python" "${python%3.11}"
         wget https://bootstrap.pypa.io/get-pip.py
         python3.11 get-pip.py
         python3.11 -m pip install numpy pandas
@@ -149,9 +153,6 @@ jobs:
           -DCMAKE_VERBOSE_MAKEFILE=ON     \
           -DPython_EXECUTABLE=$(which python3.11)
         cmake --build build --parallel 2
-        echo -e "\n-------------------\nPYTHONPATH: '$PYTHONPATH'\n-------------------\n"
-        echo -e "\n-------------------\nPATH: '$PATH'\n-------------------\n"
-        echo "$PATH" | tr : '\n' | while read path; do find "$path" -maxdepth 1 -iname 'python*'; done # | xargs ls -lisah
         ctest --test-dir build --output-on-failure
 
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